Exam question 3 · Russian Tales, The Water Snake: a girl promises to marry a…

Into what forms did the serpents transform upon their descent beneath the water?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: serpents · What happens: form, transform, descend

This is exam question 3 of lesson 434 «Russian Tales, The Water Snake: a girl promises to marry a snake, and her mother kills him» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Into	into	SCONJ	_	3 forms	mark
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 forms	nsubj
3	forms	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 transform	advcl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 transform	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 serpents	det
6	serpents	serpent	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 transform	nsubj
7	transform	transform	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 descent	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 descent	nmod:poss
10	descent	descent	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 transform	obl
11	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	13 water	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 water	det
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 descent	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 transform	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	form	present			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	transform	past · do-support	the serpents	upon serpents's descent beneath the water	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	descend		serpents = serpent	beneath the water	nom descent «event intransitive»: poss=agent beneath=obl

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1

Into men and women who swam away below the dike

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Into	into	ADP	_	2 men	case
2	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 women	cc
4	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 men	conj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 swam	nsubj
6	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 men	acl:relcl
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 swam	advmod
8	below	below	ADP	_	10 dike	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dike	det
10	dike	dike	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swam	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim away	past	men and women			the dike		away property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme below dike=Trajectory

Option 2

Into handsome men and women wearing silver garments

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Into	into	ADP	_	3 men	case
2	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 men	amod
3	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 women	cc
5	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 men	conj
6	wearing	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 men	acl
7	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 garments	compound
8	garments	garment	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wearing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	gerund	handsome men and women not said here	silver garments					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent garment=Source

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Into men and women

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Into	into	ADP	_	2 men	case
2	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 women	cc
4	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 men	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Into birds and dogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Into	into	ADP	_	2 birds	case
2	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 dogs	cc
4	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 birds	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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